Small margins and voter turnout will decide the election May 6, 2015 MANY voters will lament today that their vote won’t change the outcome of their constituency, but the margins in many places will be unbelievably tight – and punters can profit. We’ve seen constituency level polling that indicates incredibly close races across the electoral map and Sporting Index’s size of the smallest majority market looks appealing. [...]
Cannock Chase can see off Huxley rivals May 6, 2015 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS DAY TWO OF CHESTER’S MAY MEETING SIR MICHAEL Stoute hasn’t quite scaled the heights that we have come to expect over the past few seasons, but four winners at Royal Ascot last June secured him the top trainer award at the meeting and he has a powerful squad for this campaign. He [...]
O’Brien to land sixth Chester Vase in nine years May 6, 2015 AIDAN O’Brien’s record at Chester is frighteningly good and he proved again yesterday that he is one of the master trainers at this unique track. The Irish handler has saddled five winners of today’s MBNA Chester Vase (3.10pm), including subsequent Irish Derby winner Soldier Of Fortune and 2013 Investec Derby hero Ruler Of The World [...]
Maximum excitement on the general election May 6, 2015 THE GENERAL Election is made for spread betting. Sporting Index traders have been crunching the numbers for months and have hundreds of markets on what is set to be the closest race to Number 10 in over 40 years. These include total number of seats the main parties achieve, the turnout percentage, who will be [...]
General Election 2015: City A.M. means business – vote Conservative May 5, 2015 Britain enjoyed the fastest growth in the G7 last year. It is in the middle of a jobs miracle, with 1.5m more full-time jobs and youth unemployment down by 175,000 since the coalition came to power. The best-paid one per cent is now paying more than ever to the Treasury: 27 per cent of income [...]
US economy set for lift after slow start to 2015 May 5, 2015 An expansion in the US trade deficit suggests that economic growth is likely to have been negative at the start of the year, when second estimates are released at the end of May. The first official estimate last week showed that the US economy slowed to near-stagnation in the first three months of the year. However, [...]
End of the Terry Leahy era for Tesco as Ken Hanna and Stuart Chambers step down May 5, 2015 The last two non-exec directors who served during Terry Leahy’s reign at Tesco are to step down, in another shake-up of its board following last year’s profit scandal. Tesco said yesterday that Ken Hanna and Stuart Chambers would retire at the firm’s annual general meeting on 26 June, after serving on the board for six [...]
General Election 2015: WPP founder Sir Martin Sorrell wants a UK version of the Chinese Five Year Plan and an acknowledgement that immigration benefits the economy May 5, 2015 ELECTION COUNTDOWN: 1 DAY TO GO We have been asking a business leader each day to say what policies would entice them to vote for a particular party. SIR MARTIN SORRELL: FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF WPP 1. Articulate a practical overall economic plan covering, among other things, education, infrastructure investment (hard [...]
General Election 2015: Aberdeen Asset Management boss Martin Gilbert calls for speedy coalition talks May 5, 2015 Aberdeen Asset Management boss Martin Gilbert said party leaders should move fast to form a government if tomorrow’s General Election results in a hung parliament. “The longer it takes, the worse it’s going to be,” Gilbert said yesterday. “Markets don’t like uncertainty.” The FTSE has brushed off fears of political instability in recent weeks with [...]
Former Lehman Brothers bankers in line for healthier pension payouts May 5, 2015 More than 2,000 ex-Lehman bankers are set for bigger pension payments after bosses of the retirement plan struck a £675m deal to offload it to an insurance firm. Members of the Lehman Brothers Pension Scheme will see payment restrictions – put into place after the bank’s dramatic collapse nearly seven years ago – lifted in [...]
